Author Topic: Grammar that makes you cringe (Read 856944 times)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3800 on:** 06 October, 2015, 04:21:29 pm »

Or even "Organic: Your September"

T42 · « **Reply #3801 on:** 06 October, 2015, 05:39:38 pm »

Taking organic as the adjective it is does actually work, in a poetical sort of way: Organic your September, toxic your October, etc.

mattc · « **Reply #3802 on:** 06 October, 2015, 05:52:53 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 06 October, 2015, 05:39:38 pm

Taking organic as the adjective it is does actually work, in a poetical sort of way: Organic your September, toxic your October, etc.

Are you confusing "poetical" (poetic?)
with
sounding like Yoda ?

PhilO · « **Reply #3803 on:** 07 October, 2015, 01:41:26 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 06 October, 2015, 01:22:19 pm

What did you expect? They got the rest ass-backwards.

(Funny expression, that, ass-backwards. Surely the wrong way round would be ass-forwards.)

Can't say I've ever heard that one. Arse-about-face, yes, but never 'ass-backwards'... $:-\$

And why would a beast of burden be reversing, anyway?

Ian H · « **Reply #3804 on:** 07 October, 2015, 01:48:19 pm »

Quote from: PhilO on 07 October, 2015, 01:41:26 pm

Quote from: T42 on 06 October, 2015, 01:22:19 pm
What did you expect? They got the rest ass-backwards.

(Funny expression, that, ass-backwards. Surely the wrong way round would be ass-forwards.)

Can't say I've ever heard that one. Arse-about-face, yes, but never 'ass-backwards'... $:-\$

And why would a beast of burden be reversing, anyway?

It's colonial English.

Ham · « **Reply #3805 on:** 11 October, 2015, 02:11:15 pm »

Quote from: PhilO on 07 October, 2015, 01:41:26 pm

Quote from: T42 on 06 October, 2015, 01:22:19 pm
What did you expect? They got the rest ass-backwards.

(Funny expression, that, ass-backwards. Surely the wrong way round would be ass-forwards.)

Can't say I've ever heard that one. Arse-about-face, yes, but never 'ass-backwards'... $:-\$

And why would a beast of burden be reversing, anyway?

Because he saw a crocodile swimming towards him under water.

jsabine · « **Reply #3806 on:** 11 October, 2015, 10:45:52 pm »

Quote from: PhilO on 07 October, 2015, 01:41:26 pm

Quote from: T42 on 06 October, 2015, 01:22:19 pm
What did you expect? They got the rest ass-backwards.

(Funny expression, that, ass-backwards. Surely the wrong way round would be ass-forwards.)

Can't say I've ever heard that one. Arse-about-face, yes, but never 'ass-backwards'... $:-\$

Bass-ackwards is one I've heard.

I believe it was intended as an example of what is known as humour, m'lud.

T42 · « **Reply #3807 on:** 12 October, 2015, 09:20:33 am »

As was that. Nice trowel.

Funny, all this pure & applied ignorance, coming from the land that replaced railway station with train station.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3808 on:** 15 October, 2015, 11:51:30 am »

From the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of ~~Cupertino~~ Thurrock:

Quote

Customer has keyboard run marks on the display - spoke to NH who has Agreed to consumer law the display for the customer.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3809 on:** 15 October, 2015, 11:56:19 am »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 15 October, 2015, 11:51:30 am

From the Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of ~~Cupertino~~ Thurrock:

Quote
Customer has keyboard run marks on the display - spoke to NH who has Agreed to consumer law the display for the customer.

And now the same thing in Aramaic:

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Customer has keyboard run marks on the display - spoke to NH who has Agreed to consumer law the display for the customer.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3810 on:** 15 October, 2015, 12:05:03 pm »

Meanwhile

http://linkis.com/newsthump.com/2015/1/qrBAo

Chelmsford deserves it, if for no other reason than their dreadful 1970s road development.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3811 on:** 16 October, 2015, 02:02:26 pm »

From today's Independent online:

<<Researchers at Anglia Ruskin university found a link that suggests people with tattoos are more angrier than those who don't. >>

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-who-have-tattoos-are-more-aggressive-than-those-who-dont-a6696651.html

Ian H · « **Reply #3812 on:** 16 October, 2015, 02:34:58 pm »

That reads like one of those one-word-each sentences from ISIHAC.

mcshroom · « **Reply #3813 on:** 16 October, 2015, 03:48:49 pm »

Picture taken in Scourie Camp site reception

See point 11

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3814 on:** 16 October, 2015, 04:49:56 pm »

I rather like the comment to point 15.

citoyen · « **Reply #3815 on:** 16 October, 2015, 05:40:25 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 16 October, 2015, 04:49:56 pm

I rather like the comment to point 15.

I think that's what they call damning with faint praise.

clarion · « **Reply #3816 on:** 17 October, 2015, 01:20:34 pm »

See also: Point 13

hellymedic · « **Reply #3817 on:** 20 October, 2015, 01:08:31 am »

<<Man accused of poisoning four young men found dead in east London graveyard>>

Evening Standard headline.
Ambiguous or what?

The accused is alive...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3818 on:** 20 October, 2015, 12:08:12 pm »

(Sings)

Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect

MUR-DERED!

(Waits for audience applause not a sossidge)

Ian H · « **Reply #3819 on:** 20 October, 2015, 12:24:34 pm »

Someone could have murdered a murderer.

billplumtree · « **Reply #3820 on:** 20 October, 2015, 01:36:15 pm »

Quote from: Ian H on 20 October, 2015, 12:24:34 pm

Someone could have murdered a murderer.

Imagine how long it would have taken Taggart to say that

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3821 on:** 20 October, 2015, 01:39:17 pm »

Quote from: billplumtree on 20 October, 2015, 01:36:15 pm

Quote from: Ian H on 20 October, 2015, 12:24:34 pm
Someone could have murdered a murderer.

Imagine how long it would have taken Taggart to say that

That's what killed him.

T42 · « **Reply #3822 on:** 20 October, 2015, 03:40:06 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2015, 12:08:12 pm

(Sings)

Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect

MUR-DERED!

(Waits for audience applause not a sossidge)

Oh. He dead?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3823 on:** 20 October, 2015, 11:16:14 pm »

Quote from: T42 on 20 October, 2015, 03:40:06 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 20 October, 2015, 12:08:12 pm
(Sings)

Suspected murderer of Tupac murder suspect

MUR-DERED!

(Waits for audience applause not a sossidge)

Oh. He dead?

Very. Victim of a drive-by ~~shouting~~ shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.

T42 · « **Reply #3824 on:** 21 October, 2015, 09:29:50 am »

^^^ Not quite in the Queen Anne league, then. Oh well.